As his home country prepares to host the 2014 World Cup this summer, soccer’s “greatest player ever”—now about to publish his latest book, Why Soccer Matters—recalls Nelson Mandela and his own late father.

The music producer, who has worked with Elton John and Elvis Costello—and is about to premiere his latest collaboration with the Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis—says there’s no one he hates more than Walt Disney.